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Hey all, I picked up a 1989 Ford F150 recently (300ci I6, 5 speed, 3.55 8.8 rear) and the damn thing didn't come with a spare. Anybody have two Ford weirdo 5x5.5 bolt pattern rims with tires off an F-150 or a Bronco that are just collecting dust and are willing to let go cheap? Or any 15" 5x5.5 bolt pattern wheel with 3.75" backspacing and a tire on it? Dodge, Jeep, etc.... Looking for two, willing to buy 4 if the price is cheap.

Hertz still has some of it's exotic/muscle car rentals, but I don't know if they still do it in this city. I think you can get 911s, GTRs, and ZL1 camaro's through them but it may not be available in all cities, so you may have to call them.

no idea about the company but they have a charger hellcat: https://columbusexoticcarrentals.com/

If you think about it, Lenox CCC was also sponsored, initially by Cup O' Joe and then by the Property Management Company that continued to host. The difference is that nobody directly profited from "sponsorship" because Lenox CCC was not a for profit enterprise and technically it still isn't as I doubt Clay is taking once cent from Byers for his own pocket. If all Byers is bringing to this is the space as did Cup O' Joe did years ago, what's the problem? I've been to the other Cars and Coffee (Exotic Cars and Coffee?), and I didn't like it because it was a for profit enterprise. The organizer was def making money off it and from that it created an artificial atmosphere with too loud music, "curated" parking, and looking the other way at misbehavior when leaving the lot. The problem wasn't that it was sponsored, the problem is that the organizer was making money and let his financial interest dictate the meet rather let it happen holistically.

There is, e-assist steering columns like the EPAS unit have a potentiometer that lets you dial in resistance: https://www.summitracing.com/parts/eps-2013?seid=srese1&gclid=EAIaIQobChMIkqTav9ah8AIVY2tvBB1qKQNuEAQYASABEgITs_D_BwE For c1 corvettes there is a bolt on kit using a brand new unit, all the fittings and adapter parts in good quality, a homemade electronic "brain", instillation instruction videos, etc. The cost? $1440. I understand the cost and for the level of work that went into it it's justified, but a used prius steering unit is between $150 and $250 at junkyards, and to physically adapt it isn't that much work if you are handy and have access to or know someone with a lathe and welder. I am thinking about doing this with the GTO (dad balked on the vette), where there are no kits. I hate the existing pneumatic power steering in the car now, it's been a hassle to keep fluid in it even when all the parts were "new" (rebuilt). Also, 60's PS is super floaty and difficult to get underdrive pulleys and belts for. sorry for the thread hijack.

I looked into the Toyota Prius electric steering conversion for dad's '57 vette. here is the information and link I have lying around: https://www.therangerstation.com/tech/toyota-electric-power-steering-eps-conversion/ Only (3) wire connections; Ignition On, Power, and Ground to the Steering ECU. It's stand alone (Fail Safe) and will work even when the car is off as long as the ignition power is on. list of cars that are known to have fail-safe electric steering. 2004-2009 Toyota Prius 2009-2013 Toyota Corolla 2006-2011 Toyota Yaris – (With ABS) 2007-2009 Nissan Versa 2009-2012 Nissan Cube 2012-2014 Kia Soul Basically it sits behind the dash or at the steering box (where ever the steering column connects to it's first joint) and turns the shaft with the electric motor.

Am I though? Is there another way to interpret this without coming to that conclusion:

I am going to get accused of that no matter what. I tried the hit 'em with facts way, I tried the appeal to sensibility, I tried being polite and it didn't change a thing. I kinda like the feed them a counterpoint in their own aggressive tough talk rhetoric the best, not because it's effective just because its personally satisfying.

I'll be honest, I find this to be the greater value in conversations like this. I know I am not going to change Joe's mind, but if it is out there for someone else to read and find merit in both sides and really think about it and make their own decision then its worth it. One of the things that bugs me about the car/bike hobby is that a lot of people with some very strong opinions feel like they own the hobby. They feel this way because too many of us spent a lot of time rolling our eyes and walking away instead of engaging and it has fostered a bubble. I'm kind of tired of running into people who think if you love hot rods and fast cars you must be some gun toting, Christ fearing, conservative and fuck you if you are not then you aren't a real "car guy" but some "infiltrator". I'm here and vocal because I want to remind those that think they own the hobby there are people that don't agree, and they aren't some faceless label but members of your peer group. I mean, this is a car forum and I talk more about politics here than I do in my actual job which is politics dependent, just trying to avoid this place becoming an echo chamber.

I don't think there is much argument to be had from my opinion that being callous about human life in general is ghoulish. It is. I'm sorry that whatever you have been through in life made you devalue human life. It's my opinion, and my right to say it's gross, and I'll continue to do it every time you try to do that weird flex where you show how "tough" you are by being indifferent to human life. Did you read anything I wrote? based on your comments I am going to say no. Can't have a discussion if you aren't listening to what someone is saying. I read all your comments, even that weird little biography that clearly showed you were butthurt about "white privilege", and I came to discuss it. Yeah I don't have to agree with it but if you get to say it I get to respond. Don't put out there what you aren't prepared for someone to disagree with if it is so precious to you. I read your comments, found them steeped in bullshit, and said as much based on the merits of the comments and not your character. I can't say you have done the same. I think at one point you even said you aren't open minded and you don't want to consider putting yourself in anybody's shoes. Bottom line you don't want a discussion you just want someone to validate your ghoulishness, and I'm sorry I won't.

Nope. I've been in more than one situation where it was obvious my large physical frame intimidated the officer(s). I've actually had one officer tell me as much. This includes one interaction where I was physically holding a .22 cal pistol. I didn't bring this up as some weird flex, other's were bringing up their experiences as proof that they did what the officer said and were fine and I just wanted to show how absurd it was to rely on individual experience when talking about a societal problem. You are missing the point. It's not that every interaction with one race goes well and every interaction with other races goes poorly. The majority of interactions with police across all people don't result in death, false accusation, or some other bad outcome. We are talking about a specific subset of police interactions where things did go wrong and it wasn't because of the actions of the civilian involved. The argument Joe put forth is that there is no such thing because culturally one group is taught to fear/hate the police - despite clear examples being listed. Again, nobody is saying don't poke the bear is bad advice, In general "don't be an asshole" is good advice. That said it won't save you in every situation and as the numbers bear out for people of color is it less effective. It doesn't mean you me or they shouldn't still do it, it just means this idea that you being shot by police is always 100% your fault is bullshit.

According to Joe, In every single case it was 100% your fault that happened. Do you agree? Remember his argument is that in cases where interactions with LEO's go bad it was because the person was not acting appropriately and that the reason it happens more often with people of color is because they are trained to fear and hate police and therefore escalate the situation.

New Orleans is a special case in and of itself because police corruption (esp at that time) was considered the worst in the country across the board, and it was one of the most dangerous cities at the time because of that. Still, you are trying to say that at a time when an open racist/anti-Semite, former leader and founder of the louisiana KKK, a man known for wearing a NAZI uniform around in public, was running for the highest chair in the state of Louisiana (and also the head of law enforcement for the state) and garnering almost 40% of the vote that it sent the message to the black community that they could trust law enforcement, is that right? come on dude, you know that sounds silly. Remember at the same time David Duke was running for office, an NOPD Officer actually hired a hit man who murdered Kim Groves, a woman in the 9th ward who reported the officer for police brutality. He didn't even try to hide it - enlisting his fellow officers in the scheme over police radio (which is how it was captured by federal agents who were already investigating civil rights abuse by the NOPD). You are going to tell me that a black woman being gunned down in the street by an agent of the NOPD inspired confidence in the community that policing was fair? Do you think this would have still happened in Old Metairie? or Mandeville?

Quit Playing like we didn't have a conversation about your family experiences in Louisiana.

Why I would have reason? The Holocaust, Klan Activities, white supremacist's deeply rooted hold on public service. But short of whipping my cock out, there isn't much to visually identify me with a marginalized group, so I get to enjoy the same white privilege as some of you. Part of my white privilege is that I am often mouthy with police officers. Not aggressive just a smart ass, I know I am going to get any ticket kicked in the court process so there is no value in ever trying to argue with them, I just crack jokes at their expense, ask them how their quota is doing, and generally don't buy into their power trip bull shit. I have never had an officer handcuff me, point a pistol at me, even ask me to step out of the vehicle. a couple of them have even let me go without a warning. Not bragging, I just know that the likelihood of an officer killing me in a routine traffic stop is just really low. This is a good question but it doesn't cover the topic we are discussing, only a small part. Let's look at it this way instead: We both agree that people are culturally being taught to fear interactions with law enforcement. The part we disagree on is whether that fear is justified or not. You say it isn't - that civilians have nothing to fear from police and any bad outcome is inherently their fault. However history has shown flaws in that perspective. From the foundation of this country to the present day law enforcement has been the point of the spear on the oppression of immigrants, the poor, and people of color (esp. Asians and black people). Early law enforcement didn't even enforce criminal statutes so much as it just did what it felt was needed to keep the peace, it's only starting in the latter half of the 20th century that law enforcement has begun to be held accountable for constitutional and civil rights transgressions en masse. If you were a black person in history in this country, it was law enforcement that dragged you out of your home in the middle of the night when you were a slave and weren't where your master wanted you to be, it was law enforcement that came to drag your relative away to be chemically castrated during the eugenics movement, it was law enforcement that hauled your relatives away to meet a lynch mob because of some trivial offense, It was law enforcement that came with a warrant and arrested you for unjust written laws during the Jim Crow era. It was law enforcement that stopped you and falsely charged you with a crime during the civil rights era as a way to keep you silent. White people didn't have this happen to them in nearly the scale or scope (unless you were italian, Irish, or jewish in which case it wasn't as pervasive but it was similar). These situations create stories that are handed down between generations in the oral tradition, and every single black person in American who has family roots in this country to the 1800's has at least one story like the above. It's not that an entire culture is actively being taught to hate or fear law enforcement, many POC are part of law enforcement (after having been kept out of it for over a century), it just that after you hear so many family histories, law enforcement becomes somewhat of a real life boogey man or at the very least not something to be trusted (even though most people want to trust law enforcement). Has law enforcement improved in the last 200 years? absolutely. But it has undeniably historically breached the trust of groups of people for which it has not done enough to repair that breach. In large part the core of how police departments operate are based upon a framework that comes directly from the Jim Crow/Segregation era with just enough band aids laid on top to obscure that there are some big problems not being addressed. Cases like Philando Castile, Brionna Taylor, and George Floyd bring them right to the surface. Even if you have "good cops", they are still working with an inherently intentionally biased system. The case of Adrian Schoolcraft (exposed how the NYPD's officer tracking incentivized officers to ignore larger crimes and falsely accuse people of smaller infractions) showed how even something seemingly race neutral as software has disastrous racial effects when put into the law enforcement frame work - and the level of corruption that agencies will resort to in order to hide this fact. I am not saying that "be on your best behavior" isn't good advice for interacting with LEO's, It absolutely is. But it comes with the asterisk that for some people (mostly POC), it isn't going to be enough and there is nothing a civilian can do about it when it happens. does this help explain it? can you start to see why some people might have a legitimate fear of LEO's just because they are LEO's?

This right here is what I am talking about. You refuse to accept that for a group of Americans this isn't true. It's true for you and that's good enough, Who cares about the others it isn't true for, you don't. If you aren't willing to question this premise, where does that leave us? It's pretty obvious, you getting butthurt about someone pointing out the luxury you enjoy in having that statement so true for you you can't even fathom it not being true for others and then writing your biography because you feel threatened or challenged so you have to explain how you aren't privileged. I can't pretend to know how Lebron James feels about it, I am not him. I can be sympathetic that he may feel differently about it than you or I. I don't presume to tell him or any other black man how to feel about this incident in the context of his race. then again I didn't bring him up. By you mischaracterizing his pain into this absurdist concept you are making fun of him and making yourself feel better for basically telling him how he should feel about it based on his race. Seriously, you can't understand why a black person would be upset by watching another black person be shot by police regardless of whether that person had it coming or not? Maybe you should talk to more people instead of just saying "it's ok to poke holes in that person, they had it coming". I get that Lebron is angry and saying stupid shit. My question is, What do you, or RedRocket, or Mace or any of the others here have to be angry about to justify the stupid callous shit in this thread?

Joe, you teach a class that enables people to defend themselves using a firearm, and yet you make comments that fail to recognize that a subset of people, even those who take your class, have a higher risk and live in greater fear of not surviving an interaction with a police officer than you do. That's the kind of privilege we are talking about, not wealth or opportunity - that you don't know what it is like to fear for your life solely because of race and others do. That's why you think it's ok to be flippant and make jokes and say it's not a racial issue, because you can't put yourself in the shoes of someone who watches that video and thinks "it doesn't matter if I am doing the right thing or the wrong thing there is a good chance that could be me". Maybe you saw a tiny part of that in the service, but we are talking about civilian America here. As for all the other stuff, I mean just read Mace's embarrassing comments above, you really agree with all of that? that's the look you want to project? Come on man, you are smarter than that.

This isn't a case of Paul Harvey occasionally "mis-speaking" or it being an isolated case. Despite his excellent voice and warm folksy manner, he was not an unbiased journalist but rather a precursor to the Sean Hannity and Tucker Carlson form of punditry without the naked fearmongering. He often (not occasionally) made things up to fit his narrative, pushed a far right evangelical platform that even for the time wasn't close to mainstream, and pandered to homophobia, Ephebiphobia, and to a sense of nostalgia that existed firmly in the Jim Crow era of America. Regarding his statements on the police, they have to be viewed in light of his longstanding relationship with J. Edgar Hoover and support for both Hoover's and Joseph McCarthy's unlawful persecution of Americans for political affiliation. I'm not going to come out and say Paul Harvey was a fascist, but he certainly leaned that way - and all comments he made about police should be read in that context. For all the romanticism of the police in that speech he would have no issue with them arresting you because you did not agree with him politically. He was probably one of the greatest writers and orators this country had ever seen, but he didn't innocently misspeak. By the way, I met him at Oshkosh as a kid in 1989, In real life he was quite pleasant a person. The issue I have with this thread and the political thread, and why I have mostly kept quiet doesn't have to do with the merits of race in either this case or the Chauvin trial. I am disappointed with the fragile white male ego and overwhelming privilege that is on display in some of these comments. This country has a problem with racism, and it has had it for hundreds of years and will continue to have it, but rather than acknowledge that there is a problem some of the commenters here seem to actually delight in finding an example where a cop shoots a person and it may not be about race - as if to say this one example is alone proof that systemic in policing doesn't exist. Furthermore, just the cavalier attitude about tragedy justified or not is literally sickening. Someone lost their life in a regrettable situation and it is a race to the bottom with you assholes to see who can make the most "tough guy jokes". You want to talk about regrettable comments Joe? Start with "you get holes poked in you" as a way of sucking all the humanity from a young person losing their life - whether it was unavoidable or not.

Paul Harvey also once said on air that Noah's Ark was widely accepted science....so maybe he isn't the best source to listen to for....well...anything.

stock, a '49 1/2 ton weighs about 3200-3300lbs. So to be "fun" doesn't need much, maybe 320hp, and about 350 ft/lbs of torque. Honestly if you can't get 320hp out of an old school chevy 350 I feel like you aren't really trying. good luck man, should be a fun cool project.

you misspelled "Subaru Brat"

car's looking great! can't wait to see it tuned up.

Wife's CRV developed a suspension clunk recently, I couldn't find where it was coming from - dealer found it when doing a trans seal: the MacPherson strut in the front had worn out. It wasn't leaking, just that the rod had developed play and was knocking against the inside of the shock body when compressed. maybe take a look at that?